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    Input: synaptics - process finger (<=3) transitions · 4dc772d2
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    Synaptics image sensor touchpads track 5 fingers, but only report 2.
    This patch attempts to deal with some idiosyncrasies of these touchpads:
    
     * When there are 3 or more fingers, only two are reported.
     * The touchpad tracks the 5 fingers in slot[0] through slot[4].
     * It always reports the lowest and highest valid slots in SGM and AGM
       packets, respectively.
     * The number of fingers is only reported in the SGM packet.  However,
       the number of fingers can change either before or after an AGM
       packet.
     * Thus, if an SGM reports a different number of fingers than the last
       SGM, it is impossible to tell whether the intervening AGM corresponds
       to the old number of fingers or the new number of fingers.
     * For example, when going from 2->3 fingers, it is not possible to tell
       whether tell AGM contains slot[1] (old 2nd finger) or slot[2] (new
       3rd finger).
     * When fingers are added one at at time, from 1->2->3, it is possible to
       track which slots are contained in the SGM and AGM packets:
         1 finger:  SGM = slot[0], no AGM
         2 fingers: SGM = slot[0], AGM = slot[1]
         3 fingers: SGM = slot[0], AGM = slot[2]
     * It is also possible to track which slot is contained in the SGM when 1
       of 2 fingers is removed.  This is because the touchpad sends a special
       (0,0,0) AGM packet whenever all fingers are removed except slot[0]:
         Last AGM == (0,0,0): SGM contains slot[1]
         Else: SGM contains slot[0]
     * However, once there are 3 fingers, if exactly 1 finger is removed, it
       is impossible to tell which 2 slots are contained in SGM and AGM.
       The (SGM,AGM) could be (0,1), (0,2), or (1,2). There is no way to know.
     * Similarly, if two fingers are simultaneously removed (3->1), then it
       is only possible to know if SGM still contains slot[0].
     * Since it is not possible to reliably track which slot is being
       reported, we invalidate the tracking_id every time the number of
       fingers changes until this ambiguity is resolved when:
         a) All fingers are removed.
         b) 4 or 5 fingers are touched, generates an AGM-CONTACT packet.
         c) All fingers are removed except slot[0].  In this special case, the
            ambiguity is resolved since by the (0,0,0) AGM packet.
    
    Behavior of the driver:
    
    When 2 or more fingers are present on the touchpad, the kernel reports
    up to two MT-B slots containing the position data for two of the fingers
    reported by the touchpad.  If the identity of a finger cannot be tracked
    when the number-of-fingers changes, the corresponding MT-B slot will be
    invalidated (track_id set to -1), and a new track_id will be assigned in
    a subsequent input event report.
    
    The driver always reports the total number of fingers using one of the
    EV_KEY/BTN_TOOL_*TAP events. This could differ from the number of valid
    MT-B slots for two reasons:
     a) There are more than 2 fingers on the pad.
     b) During ambiguous number-of-fingers transitions, the correct track_id
        for one or both of the slots cannot be determined, so the slots are
        invalidated.
    
    Thus, this is a hybrid singletouch/MT-B scheme. Userspace can detect
    this behavior by noting that the driver supports more EV_KEY/BTN_TOOL_*TAP
    events than its maximum EV_ABS/ABS_MT_SLOT.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarChase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarHenrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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